Job Description

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides excellent patient care to patients by assisting the Staff Nurse in:
• Activities of daily living by:
• preparing meals and helping patients eat and drink at mealtimes as needed
• helping patients ambulate
• turning, positioning, and transferring patients
• assist with any prescribed daily exercises or mobilization efforts
• Maintaining personal hygiene by:
• oral hygiene
• toileting by offering bedpans and walking patients to the toilet
• providing skin care
• keeping patients clean at all times
• Maintaining patient stability by:
• checking vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, respiratory rate, pulse rate)
• checking weight
• measuring intake such as oral intake and IV fluids; output including voided urine, wet diapers and foley catheter outputs, emesis, and NGT connected to BSB.
• Providing patient comfort by:
• Keeping patient's room clean and organized
• answering patients' call lights and requests
• reporting observations of the patient to nursing staff
• Documents actions by completing forms (i.e. vital sign monitoring sheet, TPR sheet, I and O monitoring sheet, IV fluid sheet, medication sheet, weight monitoring sheet) and nurse's notes (countersigned by NOD).
• Follows nurse instructions to perform procedures, including but not limited to:
• IVF regulation, change and discontinuation
• oral suctioning
• CBG monitoring
• applying simple, non-sterile dressings, ice packs, and heat treatments;
• applying restraints on the order of a physician
• Collect specimens when ordered. Urine, sputum or stool specimens must be collected in proper containers, labeled with patient's information and taken to the laboratory.
• Assist Nursing Staff and ROD in performing procedures including but not limited to:
• Urinary catheter insertion
• NGT insertion
• Peripheral IV insertion
• Assist nurse with admitting, transferring and discharging patients.
• Assist nurse in encoding Pharmacy and CSSD items and other procedural request such as laboratory, x-ray, nursing unit direct charges, etc.
• Reporting to Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse for any pertinent observation on the patient's condition.
• Utilize interaction process with patients and family members creating therapeutic environment to alleviate anxiety and fear.
• Practices and monitors recommended infection control measures.
• Utilizes terminal and concurrent disinfection and isolation techniques to prevent spread of infection.
• Provides care in non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is sensitive to the patient and family diversity, preserving their autonomy, dignity and rights.
• Acts as patient advocate by supporting the basic rights, values and beliefs of the patient.Other Duties and Responsibilities
• Maintains confidentiality in relation to all clients, healthcare staff and documentation.
• Appearance is professional and complies with agency dress code.
• Serves and protects the hospital by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures.
• Maintains and enhances skill through attending appropriate staff development training.
• Comply with all safety and health regulations.

Qualification/s

• Graduate of Bachelor's of Science in Nursing
• Can start immediately

You may also submit your application through this link https://bit.ly/MMConlineapplicationform. For more inquiries you may call us at (02) 8-254-1111 Loc. 7137 or 0916 2630 034Job Types: Full-time, PermanentSchedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Shift system